hello everyone! just a note: i am trying something new with my video format, trying to convert from a faceless channel to this new type. It's less scripted and trying to be more spontaneous as I'm working on boosting my confidence in front of the camera. Bear with me, it's all part of the journey to improve, and I'm hopeful that each video will be better than the last! Also i have noticed that i had quiet a few views on my last video (thank you all, i was really shocked how many of you chose to watch my content) and that most of you are not subscribed so i was wondering of i could nicely ask you to do so as it would help a lot here on TH-cam :) Thank you again for coming this way and watching my video! 😊
@@bastiaan7777777 well... yes but now i am trying to stick to it as i realised that i slowly i got derailed to a faceless channel and that is not what i wanted so i decided to change the way i am making my videos and focusing to be in them and get better front of the camera.
Škoda in early 2000s: "We make small and relatively cheap family cars. Maybe we should switch to EVs?" Škoda in early 1900s: "305mm HOWITZER!!!! Siege guns! Battleship turrets!!!!! Aaaaargh!"
I have read that the Austro Daimler tractor unit was developed by D. Ferdinand Porsche, who was working for Austo Daimler pre WW1. This tractor used a petrol electric drive.
yes indeed Ferdinand Porsche was working on the the Artillerie-Generatorzugwagen M16, a hybrid tractor towing these artillery pieces. It was a very forward looking concept and nothing proves that better that these tractors were serving in WW2 also.
I visited the the military museum in vienna and there were three pieces on display in regards to this topic that were very impressive. One was a metal dome from a belgian fortress. The metal was way thicker than one would expect, But there was quite a hole in it. Tha hole supposedly was made by one of the austrian siege mortars. (I did read that the german howitzers mentioned had a bigger diameter shell, but weren't as effective for a reason i didn't find out) The second one was a metal dome from an austro-hungarian fortress with a shell still sticking in the metal but it had not penetrated. On the inside of the dome you could still read "Skoda" 🙂 And the third one: they have a M16 siege mortar in the basement. That they told the germans in WW2 had a crack in the barrel and thus could not be used. With it's 38cm diameter shells that weighed in at 700kg it's even more brutal than the 305, which is already brutal from it's performance and size in the pictures. -I don't know why, but the YT channel of said museum in vienna seems to have vanished from YT. They had good short videos about stuff.
I visited one of these fortresses many years ago. It had two armoured cupolas and both were destroyed. But only one cupola is still at the fortress, heavily damaged and broken in pieces. It seems the Austrians looted the less damaged one.
I've read about Big Bertha shells going into basements in Belgrade, where civilians hid, being unable to flee in time. The memoirs say there was only pink mist left, mixed with rubble.
hey! thank you for the topic idea and for watching my video! funnily when i started to research this video (th-cam.com/video/5NsCQl3kQEQ/w-d-xo.html) it started as the Austro-Hungarian involvement in Gallipoli but got widened as very little information is around about these units activity and it was not enough for a video. I tend to explore more this topic in the future but its more of a long term plan as a lot of research needed so doing it parallel with other projects
hey! thank you for coming this way and watching my video! i do, i am planning to do a video about the Austro-Hungarian howitzers, the next one i was planned to do in these topic is the "38cm Belagerungshaubitze M16" then the "Skoda 42cm".
@@HistoricalHavocHub Please. Do a video about the Astro Hungarian super dreadnought designs from 1916 and 1917. Skoda also planned 38cm and 42cm 45 caliber length battleship guns with the latter weighing in an estimated 110 t0 120 tons and 19 meters long. Would have been a real headache to transport those to the ship yards.
Thats one issue with big guns , especially in that time period . Without auto loaders of some kind , the rate of fire is terrible . They had issues with that , even in some tanks in WW2 . As some of the ammunition was two piece . That is a smaller battleship cal. gun . Again , at least in naval vessels , there IS , some kind of loading assist .
This is exactly why Czechia is now again one of the richest places in Europe. You always where. There was the Nazis then Communism and now Czechs are about to get their place once again. Czech engineering is on paar with our German engineering!
hello everyone!
just a note: i am trying something new with my video format, trying to convert from a faceless channel to this new type. It's less scripted and trying to be more spontaneous as I'm working on boosting my confidence in front of the camera.
Bear with me, it's all part of the journey to improve, and I'm hopeful that each video will be better than the last!
Also i have noticed that i had quiet a few views on my last video (thank you all, i was really shocked how many of you chose to watch my content) and that most of you are not subscribed so i was wondering of i could nicely ask you to do so as it would help a lot here on TH-cam :)
Thank you again for coming this way and watching my video! 😊
So more like one of your first uploads, the " Difference between a Tank and a Tank Destroyer "video?
@@bastiaan7777777 well... yes but now i am trying to stick to it as i realised that i slowly i got derailed to a faceless channel and that is not what i wanted so i decided to change the way i am making my videos and focusing to be in them and get better front of the camera.
@@HistoricalHavocHub Thanks on the video's and your reply :)
Škoda in early 2000s: "We make small and relatively cheap family cars. Maybe we should switch to EVs?"
Škoda in early 1900s: "305mm HOWITZER!!!! Siege guns! Battleship turrets!!!!! Aaaaargh!"
They also built steam engines I think!
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I have read that the Austro Daimler tractor unit was developed by D. Ferdinand Porsche, who was working for Austo Daimler pre WW1. This tractor used a petrol electric drive.
yes indeed Ferdinand Porsche was working on the the Artillerie-Generatorzugwagen M16, a hybrid tractor towing these artillery pieces. It was a very forward looking concept and nothing proves that better that these tractors were serving in WW2 also.
@@HistoricalHavocHub Skoda also made these vehicles which they called C-Zug. Skoda was the largest shareholder of Austro Daimler.
stepped things down a notch. bought myself a skoda.
Very nice and instructive video, keep up the good work! :)
Once again, I am educated. Excellent video sir, I love these interestingly obscure histories. ❤🎓🇭🇺❤
thank you very much!
I visited the the military museum in vienna and there were three pieces on display in regards to this topic that were very impressive.
One was a metal dome from a belgian fortress. The metal was way thicker than one would expect, But there was quite a hole in it.
Tha hole supposedly was made by one of the austrian siege mortars. (I did read that the german howitzers mentioned had a bigger diameter shell, but weren't as effective for a reason i didn't find out)
The second one was a metal dome from an austro-hungarian fortress with a shell still sticking in the metal but it had not penetrated.
On the inside of the dome you could still read "Skoda" 🙂
And the third one: they have a M16 siege mortar in the basement. That they told the germans in WW2 had a crack in the barrel and thus could not be used. With it's 38cm diameter shells that weighed in at 700kg it's even more brutal than the 305, which is already brutal from it's performance and size in the pictures.
-I don't know why, but the YT channel of said museum in vienna seems to have vanished from YT. They had good short videos about stuff.
That dome came from the fortress in Kessel, I live pretty close to it.
@@R.Lennartz Thanks for the information!
Greetings!
I visited one of these fortresses many years ago. It had two armoured cupolas and both were destroyed. But only one cupola is still at the fortress, heavily damaged and broken in pieces. It seems the Austrians looted the less damaged one.
I've read about Big Bertha shells going into basements in Belgrade, where civilians hid, being unable to flee in time. The memoirs say there was only pink mist left, mixed with rubble.
Cool video, have the 1/35 kit in the stash 🍻
that’s a BIG pop gun
Where did you get the footage from i can't find footage about this artilleri 😢😢
maybe you make an episode about austro-hungarian howitzer batteries at ottoman empire..gallipoli campaign, izmir, caucasia front, palestine front..
hey! thank you for the topic idea and for watching my video! funnily when i started to research this video (th-cam.com/video/5NsCQl3kQEQ/w-d-xo.html) it started as the Austro-Hungarian involvement in Gallipoli but got widened as very little information is around about these units activity and it was not enough for a video. I tend to explore more this topic in the future but its more of a long term plan as a lot of research needed so doing it parallel with other projects
Do you have any information of the Skoda 420mm guns that would have armed the Project V Battleships designed in 1917?
hey! thank you for coming this way and watching my video! i do, i am planning to do a video about the Austro-Hungarian howitzers, the next one i was planned to do in these topic is the "38cm Belagerungshaubitze M16" then the "Skoda 42cm".
@@HistoricalHavocHub Please. Do a video about the Astro Hungarian super dreadnought designs from 1916 and 1917. Skoda also planned 38cm and 42cm 45 caliber length battleship guns with the latter weighing in an estimated 110 t0 120 tons and 19 meters long. Would have been a real headache to transport those to the ship yards.
A 12" siege gun that shoots 7 miles, sounds pretty deadly.
“…Downrange of the big twelve inch…”
bet that made a thud! lol
Thats one issue with big guns , especially in that time period . Without auto loaders of some kind , the rate of fire is terrible . They had issues with that , even in some tanks in WW2 . As some of the ammunition was two piece . That is a smaller battleship cal. gun . Again , at least in naval vessels , there IS , some kind of loading assist .
This is exactly why Czechia is now again one of the richest places in Europe. You always where. There was the Nazis then Communism and now Czechs are about to get their place once again. Czech engineering is on paar with our German engineering!